The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-01-20

coarse phrassology in his last articae
would indicate that he served IN Five
Points Journalism, to cater to the taste OF
the slums of Gotham, before he came to
Florida. Reminding our readers of the
fact that in every article since he attacked
US we have proved falsehood upon him.,
got his scalp " on each occasion, we will
proceed to do the same thing in this by
stating that in his paper of day before
yesterday he again denies that the "print-
ing section appeared in the Journal of
the Convention. BY that Journal we
proved his falsehood, and we need not
quote it again. He then contradicts
himself by saying it was adopted, and
thus proves the lie on himself when he
said it did not appear in the Journal. We
need not again quote the Journal Pro.
ceedings and Convention Rule "a, to
show that it only passed first reading
and never was adopted. He only seeks
to muddle the matter and deceive the un-
informed by this miserable twaddle.
We pass now to point which forcibly
demonstrates his utter and most unscru-
pulous talsity and crookedness: In his
paper of December 10, as also in subse-
quent issue, he stated, at the proper
time zoe shall give a complete history of
this mysterious disappearance of the
printing section-and we demanded then,
as we did afterwards, and now do again,
in the name of the people, that he should
tell what he said he knew. Now mark
that he is asking for information, though
he asserted he could "give complete
history" for in his paper Of last Monday
he says eve will be willing to utilize
any light on the subject that may be fur
nished from any source" and in his paper
of last Monday he advertises light
wanted" Was there ever another such
contemplate, skulking fellow misplaced
in the honorable profession of journalism
which he disgraces.
Three times in the course Of his article
of Tuesday he has the insolence to ask us
what became of the missing section and
why it was not printed-he asks this who
| asserted and reasserted that he could
give Ga complete history "of the matter !!
In his Tuesday article he says " 1t will be
| remembered that the Times Union made
no charge against the editor of the Flo
A1D1AN nor the State Printer" and it will
be remembered also that the libellous
rogue cunningly avoided this direct
charge Of suppressing the section that
would have cost him libel suit, but i'm
piled it in an article attacking US and
that he, Jones, reprinted from another
| paper, without comment or disavowal, it's
statement that he, Jones, had charged us
with the intamy. Every reader of his
paper saw that it was in fact a charge,
and noted the cowardly and sneaking
method of it, characteristic of this noto-
rious and malicious poltroon and ter
giversator. We demand again that
he publish his "complete history
of the mysterious disappearance -
Is he waiting to be paid for it,
or when he said he knew it did he sim
ply lie with only the object of casting an
infamous suspicion? 1t would seem that
he simply lied, and is now trying to get
up some sort of " history to get himself
out of the scrape into which the lie got
him. Is this wretched apology for a man
utterly lost to shame? 1t would seem so,
for in his Tuesday article he voluntarily
refers to his sold Timer Letter, and con-
ceding that his veracity has been i'm
peached by pretty much every dead-beat
in the State thus airing his slum vo-
cabulary by applying the term "dead-
beats to the democratic people of Flor
ida, slandered in that article. We close
by quoting from his article of Tuesday
the following elegant samples of its tone
and language" ribald blackguardism,"
4" foul-mouthed BLACKBOARD ;" and by
suggesting that he take his ill-gotten
Doodle and 60 back to congenial slums.